Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-21


drunkard's liver, the idler's liver, the
| libertine's liver, the gamblers liver. Per-
haps the spectacle might stop some young
man before he comes to the same catss
| lrophe, and the dart strike through his
own liver.
My nearer, this is the first sermon you
have heard on the gospel Of health, and it
may be the last you will ever hear
on that subject, and 1 charge
you in the name of God, and Christ, and
usefulness, and eternal destiny take bet
ter care OF your heath. When some of
you die, If your friends put on your
tombstone truthful epitsph, it will read:
''Here lies the victim of late suppers,"
or it will be: "Behold what chicken salad
st midnight will do for man." CT it will
| be: "Ten cigars day closed my earthly
existence" or it will be: asst down IL @
cold drsught and this is the result" Or it
will be: 81 died of thin shoes last win
ter" Or it will be: "Went out without
an overcoat and took this last chilli" or
it will be: "rhought I could do at sew
enty what did at twenty, and I sm here"
or it will be: "Here is the cOnse quenca
will be: "This is where l have stacked
my harvest of wild oats" or, instead of
words, the stone cutter VIII chisel for an
epitaph on the tombstone Two figures,
namely: dart anG liver.
There is q kind of sickness that is beau
tiiui when it s
COMES FROM OVER WORK
for God, or one's country, or one's own
family. I have seen wounds tina were
glorious. After the battle of Antietsm in
the hospital soldier in reply to my ques-
ton, "Where are you hurI?" uncovered
his bosom and showed meta cash thai
| looked like badge of eternal nobility. 1
have seen an empty sleeve that was more
! beautiful than the most muscular fore
arm. / have seen green shade over the
eye shot out in battle that was more beau
tiful than any two eyes that had passed
without injury. / have seen en- old mis-
| sionary worn cut with the malaria of Afri-
Can jungles who looked to me more radi-
ant than & rubicund gymnsst. have
| seen mother after six weeks watching
over family of children down with scar
let fever with glory around her pale and
wan face that surpassed the angelic. 1t
all depends on how you got your sickness
and 10 what battle your wounds. Fred
erick I. FrelinghuVsen, the pride of New
JerseY-aYe Of the natiOn-snd one
of the pillars of the Christian
church, and for ne.rly four years prAc-
| tically President OF the United States,
slthough in the OfficeSof Secretary of
State, in his determination tOmGke peace
| with all the governments on this Amerl-
can continent wore himself cut, and
while his brain WAS as keen as it ever
| was, and his heart beat as regularly So IL
ever did, he wss according to the bulletin
of his physicians ct Washington and
Newark dying of hardening OF the liver.
Satan, who does not like good men, sent
8 dart through his liver. The last my deer
friend-for be WAS my friend and my
fathers friend before me-the last he WAS
seen in Washington was in the Presidents
carriage, leaning his head on the
shoulder of the President, on his way to
the depot to take the train to go home to
die. Martyr of the public service he
DIED FOR his COUNTRY
though he died in time OF peace. In his
earlier life he was called the nephew of
his uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen, but
he lived to render for God RGd mis- coun-
try service that will make others proud
to be mis- nephew, and which will keep
his name on the scroll of history as the
highest style of Christian statesman that
this century or any other century has
produced. My Lord and my GOD! if we
must get sick and worn out, let 1t be in
Thy service and in the effort to make the
world good and happy. Not in the serv-
ice of sin. No, not One of the most pa
thetic scenes that ever witness, and l
often see 1t, Is that of men or women con-
verified in the f1fties or sixties or seventies
wanting to be useful, but they SO served
the world and Satan in the earlier part Of
their life that they have no physical en-
ergy left for the service of God. They
sacrificed nerves, muscles, lunge, heart
and liver on the wrong altar. They fought
On the wrong side, and now, when their
sword is ali hacked up and their ammu-
milton ell gone, they enlist for Emmanuel
When the high-mettled cavalry horse,
which that mSn spurred into many cav
airy charge, with champing bit and fam
ing eye and neck clothed with thunder, is
worn out, and spawned, and ring1oned,
and springhslt, he rides up to the great
Captain of our Salvation on the white
horse and offers his services When
such persons might have been through
the good hsbits of a lifetime crashing
the battle SIX through beimeted inIquities,
they sre spending their days and nights
IN discussing the best way of
breaking up their indigestion
and quieting their jsnglipg nerves,
and rousing their lsggsrd appetite, ana
trying to extract the cart from their out
rage liver. Better converted late than
neverl Oh, yes; for they will get to
hesVen. But they will go sfoot when
they might have wheeled up the steep
hills of the sky in Elijah's chariot
There is an old hymn that We used to
sing in the country Westinghouse, when l
was boy, and remember how the old
folks voices trembIed with emotion while
they sang 1t. have forgotten oil but